Their mistake appears to have been not to have understood that which we, and most other voters, understand all too well, which is that they got into office because of sheer public disgust at the cess… (View Post)

Unless the spoiler to the promise is that they’re merely the 72 mugs who arrived immediately prior, and hence all male….? (View Post)

Not necessarily. My core scenario for the next GE is that the government isn’t particularly popular but that the Conservatives haven’t recovered to any significant extent. If the government is rather… (View Post)

If you try and talk about the election to a stranger, you get the same reaction as if you’d just released a particularly loud and malodorous fart. (View Post)

And we should value our generally non-political civil service, judiciary, and associated bodies such as the Electoral and Boundary Commissions, since in the US very little is non-political nowadays a… (View Post)